Gerrit's PLACE Program

GAK's Black Amethyst Place Program v3.13

Purpose:

To find out where your friends are logged on from. Requirements:

You must be on the RIT Vax or Grace Network. New v3.1 Features:

PORTS.DAT file recognizes ~'s as number place holders.
This allows the program to tell you which number in the lab your friend is sitting at.
REJECT.DAT in your account (set public!) will allow you to have your own personal location as long as you put a ~ in your process name.
You may place multiple locations in your REJECT.DAT file and a full screen of help (PLACE /~) has been put in place for you to use. 3.12
You can smooth out the lines by using the /SMOOTH parameter. 3.13
You may disable the loading of the REJECT.DAT files by placing /NOLOAD in the parameter list. 3.13

Overview of Features:

Recognizes three formats of friends lists
1. PLACE /DEF=filename
  $ DEFINE /NOLOG Gerrit GAK4178 ! Gerrit
Change your process name to reject place querries
To get a list of valid process names, type:
Display your friends list with lines, date, time, users on, etc.
To get a list of valid parameters, type:
Display your friends list with more information such as program name, vax node, CPU time, time logged on, Process ID, process name, etc.
To get a list of valid parameters, type:
Online Help
All of these features are described and listed with parameters by typing:
Detection of VAX problems
External PORTS.DAT file so you can update it yourself, or download updates.

Updating Instructions:

(This will ONLY work with Place v3.1 or greater)

Download the PORTS.DAT file into the home directory on your account.

You only need to do this if you haven't since April 23, 1997.
Download the Version 3.13 your VAX account. (Click on the platform to download it)
- PLACE.EXE
- PLACE.EXE
- PLACE.EXE

Installation Instructions:

Download the PLACE.EXE to your VAX account. (Click on the platform to download it)
- PLACE.EXE
- PLACE.EXE
- PLACE.EXE
Download the PORTS.DAT file into the home directory on your account.
Update your LOGIN.COM or .cshrc
- Insert the following into your LOGIN.COM
  - If you wish to install it the regular way, put in:
    $ PLACE :== "$SYS$LOGIN:PLACE.EXE"
  - If you wish for your account to detect whether you are on VMS or VAX, insert the following after placing the different versions in a VMS and VAX directory depending on the version.
    $ VAX = (f$getsyi("hw_model") .lt. 1024)
    $ VMS = (f$getsyi("hw_model") .ge. 1024)
    $ if VAX then ARCH == "VAX"
    $ if VMS then ARCH == "VMS"
    $ PLACE :== "$SYS$LOGIN_DEVICE:[.''ARCH']PLACE.EXE"
- Insert the following into your .cshrc
Now you can add more alias and/or paramters to configure it however you like! Just use the online help to assist you in what options to add!

Credits:

Master Programmer

VMS Programmer Extraordinar

All Knowing Vax Diety

Location Assistant

Insane Wizard of Ideas

Creative Inspiration

Building Goddess

amethyst@endor.org - 1997